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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

New StoriesAlive Subscription-Based App Offers ‘Go-To Digital Library’ for Children

Families
can experience stories from beloved children’s authors in a
highly-interactive way with leading-edge levels of personalization

Do you kids love storybook apps? If you were to look at our iPad, you will find a whole folder filled with interactive storybooks that we have downloaded for the girls to enjoy. Not only do they love the easy to follow along and understand stories, but they love the interactive features, in which the stories come alive right before their eyes. Well, if you said "Yes" to your kids loving storybook apps, then you will want to check out StoriesAlive, a subscription-based library app for children ages 3 to 8, from Auryn, Inc., the most award-winning digital publisher of children’s apps.

"StoriesAlive offers families an easy and affordable way to enjoy Auryn’s
award-winning collection of hundreds of stories that engage, entertain
and encourage learning among young readers. Kids can delight in a
thoughtfully procured collection of stories from treasured classics and
favorite fairytales to modern day bestsellers from renowned children’s
book authors. This includes critically-acclaimed stories such as What Does My Teddy Bear Do All Day? and Alphabet Animals, winners of Parent’s Choice and Appy awards and “Best of” Kirkus Reviews.

All story titles are visually enchanting, highly-interactive apps—not e-books. The interactive features in premium and standard
story apps included in StoriesAlive take interactivity in digital books
to a whole new level. Some of the interactive features included to
encourage reading engagement and improve comprehension skills among
young readers are:

•Personalization
of text and voice: Each StoriesAlive title has an option for the text
and voice of each story to be changed, making for a completely unique
experience and allowing children to connect with the story to read it
again and again.•Create
your own Hot Spots: A whole new level of personalization, Hot Spots
allow readers to create their own spots in the story by selecting areas
to add any sound effect. Readers can select a character and add his/her
voice to it and play it back for fun and learning. •Vocabulary
Builder: In addition to a dictionary for readers, titles for young
readers include Pictionary to help clarify the meaning of a word for
improved comprehension. •Read To Me/Read It Myself: Each story comes with the standard
interactive feature of Read to Me, a read aloud functionality with the
word highlights. Users have the option to turn off Read To Me, allowing
readers to read the story at their own pace.

Premium
titles come with additional individualized interactive features such as
animation, games and music in addition to standard interactive
features.

The
StoriesAlive subscription also encourages young readers to become
storytellers through MyStory, a series of creative workbooks available
in the digital library. MyStory workbooks are downloadable and allow
children to add text, voice and pictures to create their own stories."

StoriesAlive
is FREE to download on iPad and Android tablets and comes with six
FREE-trial stories. For $7.99 per month, children can access hundreds of
interactive stories; new stories are added on a weekly basis, including
premium story apps, for an ever-expanding library. Once a story
is downloaded, an Internet connection is not needed, making StoriesAlive
perfect for on-the-go families or for cuddling and reading at
bedtime.

Founded
by Academy award-winning visual effects experts from Hollywood’s top
movie studios, Auryn, Inc. is the most award-winning digital publisher
of children’s storybook and creative apps for the iPad, iPhone, Android
and other tablet devices. Recognized by the Producers Guild of America
and Variety magazine as the Digital 25 top innovator in Emerging Media
and winner of more app awards than any other digital publisher, Auryn is
paving the way in digital publishing and fast-becoming the leader in
children’s apps. For more on Auryn and StoriesAlive, visit www.auryn.com and www.stories-alive.com.